Climate change affects the whole world in different ways, often causing damage to structures, populations and the environment. MEDiate has developed a decision support system (DSS) for disaster risk management that considers multiple interacting natural hazards and cascading impacts. This new approach is resilience-based, service-oriented and people-centred, and takes into account the expected changes in hazard and exposure.

This risk-informed DSS was delivered as an easy-to-use IT system, enabling end users to model and visualise potential disaster scenarios and understand how potential actions would affect the scenarios and the resilience of their communities to current and future natural hazards.
The consortium comprised a multidisciplinary group of researchers and developers, practitioners and stakeholders, who worked together to co-design, co-develop, co-test and refine the MEDiate DSS.